Machine for shrinking fabric.



PATRNTRD AUG. 7, 1906.

,L R. GARLRTON & M. M. BROOKS. MACHINE FOR SHRINKING FABRIC.

APPLIOATION FILED AUGJIs, 1905.

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No.. 828,017. PATBNTED'AUG. 7, 190e.

L. H. GARLBTON & M. M. BROOKS.

MACHINE FOR SHRINKING FABRIC. APPLIGATION rum) AUG. 1s. 190s.

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N0. 828,017. PATENTBD AUG. '7, 1906. L. H. CARLETON & M. M. BROOKS.

MACHINE POR SHRINKING FABRIC.

APPLIUATION FILED AUG. 1s, 1905.

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No. 828,017. .PATENTB- AUG. 7, 1906.

- L. H. GARLETON & M. M. BROOKS.

MACHINE FOR SHRINKING FABRIC..

APPLICATION FILED AUG. 18, 1905.

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-' u @Mamaniv ioNrrED STATES PATENT OEErOE.

LESLIE HQOARLETON AND MOSES M. BROOKS, OE TROY, NEw YORK, AssieNoRs or ONE-THIRD ro GEORGE H. LEE, OE TROY, NEw YORK.

MACHINE FOR SHRINKING FABRIC.

Patented Aug. '7, 1906.

Application mea August 1s, 1905. sami No. 274,72,

To all whom it may con/cern:

Be it known that we, LESLIE H. CARLETON and'MosEs M. BROOKS, citizens of the United parts being l pose the structure.

States, residing at Troy, in the county of Rensselaer and State of New York, have invented new and useful Improvements in Machines for Shrinking Fabrics, of which the following is a specification. A

This invention relates to an apparatus for shrinking fabric.

In the art it is well known that fabric must be shrunk prior to its beingmade up for commercial purposes in order that proper and practical results may be obtained. We have therefore designed an apparatus which receives a dampened fabric and holds the same suspended and reciprocate it adjacent a heating medium in a heated compartment to dry and shrink the material.

The object of our invention is to provide a reciprocating frame and supporting-chains which carry detachable fabric-supporting bars and a dampening-trough, all arranged for the purpose of conveniently dampening the fabric and then passing thevsame to the reciprocating frame, where it is dried and shrunk.

The invention possesses other decided advantages which will hereinafter be set forth, and particularly pointed out in the.claims.

In the drawings, Figure 1 is a perspective view of our improved shrinking apparatus,

broken away to more fully'ex- Fig.` 2 is a longitudinalsection. Fig. 3 is a similar view illustrating the unloading of the fabric after it has been treated. g Fig. 4 is a transverse section on the line 4 4, Fig. 2. Fig. 5 is ahoriz-ontal section on the line 5 5. Fig. 2.

1 indicates a conventional chamber, which may be in the form of a room, compartment,

or the like, from the roofof which depends a series of eyebolts 3 and at the bottom are heating-pipes 4.

5 indicates a reciprocating frame comprisin'g side bars 6 6 and connecting-bars 7, the frame being supported by hangers 9, en-

gaging eyebolts 10 on the bars 6 and the eyebolts 3. At one end of the frame 5 is a crossshaft 11, on which is mounted-two sprocketwheels 12 12 inside the frame and adjacent the side bars 6 6, while on the outside of the `frame' the shaftcarries another sprocketwheel 13. At the opposite end of frame 5 are stubshafts 14 14, carrying grooved Wheels 15 15, yand around these wheels and sprocket-wheels 12 12. pass sprocket-chains 16 16, the latter being supported between the Wheels by tracks 17 17. A stub-Shaft 19 is mounted on the frame, and it` carries a sprocket-wheel 2O and hand-wheel 21, a chain 22 passing around the sprocket-wheels 13 and 20. A shaft 23 is mountedat one end of the` 'room 1, and it is provided with crankarms 24 24,. connected bylinks 25 25 with the frame 5.. The shaft is also provided with fast 'and loose pulleys 26 and'27 and a shifter 28 for the purpose of controlling the movement of the frame, as will be hereinafter explained. At the receiving end ofthe room 1 and near the bottom thereof is a trough 30, in which the fabric is dampened previous to its introduction to frame 5, and above the trough is an idle roller 31, over which the fabric is guided to the frame.

In operation the fabric is first placed in the trough-30 and dampened, from whence it is passed over `the roller 31, and then over one of a series-of detachable bars 32. Bars 32 have depending lugs 33, designed to engage the links of the chains 16, as best seen in Fig. 4 of the drawings. passed over the first bar 32, the hand-wheel 21 is turned and the chain is advanced one step, the fabric being drawn out considerably to form a loop, when another bar 32 is placed on' The fabric being nowv This operation is conthe overcrowding of the bars 32, as will be re ad- I ily understood. The room is now closed and the frame is ready to be reciprocated.` The operator will operate the shifter and throw the belt to the fast pulley and the frame is reciprocated through the means hereinbefore dey scribed. y Of course it is understood that the heat is turned on to heat the room to a very high temperature and by reason ofthe reciprocation of the fabric it does not take long to absorb the moisture and shrink the fabric.

The drying of the fabric once dampened to shrink itis wellknown in the art and further IOC comment of this action is believed to be unnecessary. After the fabric has been treated sufficiently to accomplish the desired end the shifter is operated to ,throw the power to the i loose pulley, which stops the reciprocation of are free ofA the bars, when the fabric Will be supported by bar 35, the bars 32 being re-v the frame. The hand-wheel is turned in a reverse direction\andthe fabric and support# ing-bars are moved toward theuopen end of the frame, Where'it contacts With an interposed bar 35 and the bars 32 fall to the Hoor. This operation is continued until the chains i the frame.

' 2. In an apparatus'of the class described, the combination with a reciprocating' frame, means for' reciprocating the fran-1e, chains carried by the frame, supporting-bars mounted on the chains, and means for moving the chains and supporting-bars independently ofv the reciprocating movement of the frame.

3. In an apparatus of the class described, the combination with a frame, chains carried by the frame, detachable bars mounted on the chains, means on each barfor engagement with the chains, means for moving the chains, and means Afor .reciprocating the frame. I

4. In an apparatus of the class described, the combination with a frame, a shaft extending across one end of the frame and hav-- ing Wheels mounted thereon, stub-shafts at the opposite ends of the frame to form a space therebetween, Wheels mounted ontheI stub shafts, chains passing around Psaid wheels and the wheels on the shaft which eX- tends across the frame, bars supportedjby the chains, means for moving the bars'ftawafrd the saidcross-shaft to load the frame'-with material to be treated, and in a reverse'direction toward the space between the stubshafts to unload the frame, and a detachable bar in the path of the material to receive the mechanism is reversed the materia latter infolds when thei movement of the frame is reversed.v l

5. vIn an apparatus of the class described, the combination with a reciprocating frame normally open at one end, means for reciprocating, the frame means carried by the frame o r supporting material to be treated, mechanism for operating said means to load and unload the frame, a detachable lbar adapted tobe placed across the open end of the framewhereby when the movement of the olperating having said detachable bar.

6. In anapparatus of the class described,

the combination with a compartment, means for heating the compartment, a dampeningtrou h able ars carried by the frame, means for reciprocating the frame, and means formoving the bars independently of the reciprocating movement of the frame to receive material from the dampening-trough.

7. In an apparatus of the class described, the combination with a compartment, means for heating the compartment, a dampeningtrough, a series of bars in the compartment, means for moving the bars to receive material from the dam ening-trough, and means for reciprocating t e bars. v

8. `In an apparatus of the class described, the combination with a compartment, means for heating the compartment, a frame, hangers supporting the frame, `means for reciprocating the frame, chains carried by the frame, means for moving the chain independently of the reciprocating movement thereof, and

,y a frame in the compartment, detahdampenmg means for dampening the matev rial to be treated prevlous to its introduction to the frame.

' 9. In any apparatus of the class described, the combination with a reciprocating frame, means for reciprocating the frame, means for controlling said reciprocating means, chains carried by the frame, detachable bars supported on the chains, meansk for moving the chains, and a `detachable bar which supports the material having been treated when the movement of the chains has been reversed. 10. In an apparatus of the class described, the combination With a frame, means for reciprocating lthe frame, a shaft extending across the frame and-having three wheels, two st'ub-shafts at the opposite end 'of the frameeachof which is provided with a wheel, chains passing around said latter Wheels and two of the Wheels on the cross-shaft, a stubshaft extending from the side of the frame and having a Wheel and an operating device, a chain passing around said Wheel-and the v wheel on the cross-shaft, and means for dampening the material previous toits introduction to the bars on the chain.

1 1. In an' apparatus of the class described, the combinatlon with a reciprocating frame, means for reciprocating said frame, bars carried by the frame, manually-operated means for moving said bars in line with but independently of the reciprocation of the frame.

12. In an apparatus of the class described, the combinatlon with a frame which is normallyopen at one end, means carried by the frame for supporting a series of spaced-apart bars on which material being treated is supported, means for operating the carryino means', and a detachable bar at the open end of the frame on which the material having IOS IIO

been treated is suspended when the 4operatreceive material, means for reciprocating the ing means have been reversed, and means for bar supporting lmeans and the bars, and 15 reciprocating the frame. means for movinv the bar-supporting means 13. In an apparatus ofthe class described, independently 0I the reciprocating move- 5 the combination With a series of supports to ment. l

permit the material being treated to be sus- In testimony whereof We have affixed our ended in Jfolds, means for reciprocating the l signatures in presence of two subscribing Wit- 2o iblded material, and means for moving the nesses.

folded material independently of the recip- LESLIE H. OARLETON. 1o rocating movement. MOSES M. BROOKS.V

14. In an apparatus ofthe class described, Witnesses: the combination With bar-supporting means, i MARY R. BRADY,

a series of detachable bars carried thereby to JAMES CAVEN. 

